One day I was on limewire and it wouldn't let me go any further until I downloaded a newer version which ask if I wanted to share my files. I said yes not knowing that I was sharing them with everyone who has limewire. My son and I use the same computer but have different accounts. He was highly upset, today I decided to go and see how I could take the share out of his files buy taking the check mark off of all the files. Little did I know (should have learned my leason) that I deleted all his songs. Now my question is, I also have the same songs he had and they are still on my limewire. How can I go about transferring or copying them to his limewire. I read somewhere on the limewire site that if I wanted to add someone it says how you could do this. I was tempted to delete the limewire off my sons account and then just add it back in but it says that I must go to the add/remove files to remove. I am afraid that if I do this I will also delete the ones that I have on my limewire. Can anyone give me some advice.

Did you actually go to your son's library & delete things, or did you just go thru LW's tools > options & stop sharing some folders? Unless you deleted the files then they should still be there...just not shared & maybe not showing up in his library.

Use your computer's search to look for some of the file names...see whether they're still around

If you open LW & then go tools > options > saving, you'll see the path to the folder with your saved files. Do the same in your son's LW & you'll see the path to his saved folder. You can find those folders on your computer & then copy & paste from one to the other. Or, if the files haven't actually been deleted, you can add files back into your son's LW library by adding the folder(s) for sharing. Again, this can be done from LW's tools > options.

If you tell us which version of LW you're using, we can probably help you a bit more

I am using limewire 4.16. When I deleted them, I went into options then share folders then the screen that says sharing extension I clicked off all the boxes so that there were no check marks. Thats when they all disappeared.

If you didn't actually delete the files from within LW's options, or from shared/saved folders outside of LW then the files should still be around. Just choosing not to share something won't delete it...just means that the files won't show up in LW's library.

Did you use your computer's search to look for some of the file names?

Have a look at this thread - there's info about the location of saved & shared folders in the newer versions of LW. Since you didn't tell us which 4.16 version you're using, I'm not sure where the saved & shared folders will be located. But that info's in the thread below...find those folders on your computer & see whether your son's music's all there.
If you've updated LW and can't find your downloads!